Movies that you thought would suck...

[D Mac]

but ended up liking.


Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle. When I first saw the preview, I thought this would be the stupidest movie ever. Then I visited my brother and he was watching it. I never laughed so hard in a long time when I watched this.

Neal Patrick Harris rules, BTW.

[Impeccable]

The Punisher

I'm a marvel comic fan, and I thought they'd end up butchering it, but it didn't turn out to be too bad.

[Downunder]

The Dukes of Hazzard

[Chavo Classic]

The Shawshank Redemption.

Something always bothers me when people say "oh, you gotta see this film". Usually it has the opposite effect since my expectations are so high, but you already know the rest of this story....

March of the Penguins

Like a giant documentary, but I never knew I liked documentaries before I saw this.

Collateral

Mixed reactions and people saying the ending was premature and didn't make sense. Obviously they were in the wrong screening room.

[Blitz]

Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Unfortunate Events. I had very low expectations, and ended up liking it quite a bit.

[wwe2222]

Without a Paddle
I convinced myself this would be the worst movie ever, and I ended up
enjoying it quite a bit.

In Good Company
I thought this would be pretty bad, but I caught part of it last week and
kept watching. Was pretty good actually.

[FourFifty]

The Island
The only reason why I watched it is it was free, and I wanted to properly trash the movie. Everything else Michael Bay has touched has been utter shit, but I was impressed with The Island.

[MVP]

Vanilla Sky
Eurotrip
Blade Trinity
Underworld
Street Fighter, even though it had nothing to do with the video game

[Blitz]

Yeah, The Island is massively underrated.

[Shaggy]

Complaint after Complaint was all I heard after "The Island" came out so I never really cared to rent it and check it out. I picked it up for xmas and thought it was actually pretty good. I mean it wasnt the greatest movie ive seen but it was definently better than I was expecting.

To number one "Thought it would suck" movie for me was....Stealth....I really expected it to suck badly but when I saw it I fell in love with it. Sure the movie makes no sense whats so ever and sure it was very far fetched...but I really enjoyed the movie. Probably the biggest turn around ever for me.

[Blitz]

The one saving grace of Stealth was Jessica Biel in a bikini.

[samichna]

Without a Paddle
I convinced myself this would be the worst movie ever, and I ended up
enjoying it quite a bit.

In Good Company
I thought this would be pretty bad, but I caught part of it last week and
kept watching. Was pretty good actually.

lol yeah I actually liked both of those films.

[Gertner]

Napolean Dynamite and The Notebook

[Gertner]

oh and Party Monster which is like ym fav movie next to American Psycho

[Blitz]

American Psycho is frickin awesome.

[Disturbed316]

Vanilla Sky
Eurotrip
Blade Trinity
Underworld
Street Fighter, even though it had nothing to do with the video game

They really fucked up the ending of Vanilla Sky. The original version was much clearer and actually made sense.

[Boondock Saint]

The Island
The only reason why I watched it is it was free, and I wanted to properly trash the movie. Everything else Michael Bay has touched has been utter shit, but I was impressed with The Island.


Hey now, The Rock is one of the best action movies of the 90s, if not the best. The rest of his stuff was bah.

I enjoyed The Island as well.
Terminator 3- I was afraid it was gonna blow ass, trailer didn't do it justice. But I ended up liking it a lot. No where near as good as 1 or 2, but certainly an entertaining summer action flick.

[The Greater Power]

3000 Miles To Graceland....I actually love this movie.

[AareDub]

They really fucked up the ending of Vanilla Sky. The original version was much clearer and actually made sense.

That's funny, it's like the other way around for me. The original seemed poorly put together and I would've never watched Vanilla Sky if I'd seen Abre Los Ojos first.

[AareDub]

Without a Paddle
I convinced myself this would be the worst movie ever, and I ended up
enjoying it quite a bit.

In Good Company
I thought this would be pretty bad, but I caught part of it last week and
kept watching. Was pretty good actually.

... strange, those are the last 2 movies Netflix sent to me. fucking "long wait" on new releases.

[Sting Fan]

Event Horizon (I think thats the name)

Has Samuel L Jackson and Sam Neil in it and when I read the bio on T.V. the other night (sky TV) it looked like your regular crappy space horror (and it was to a degree) but I was actualy pretty imressed in the end as I found myself wanting to watch it right the way through, very surprising.

The Rock is another, The trailers I saw looked ass and then it was actualy pretty good.

And Welcome too the Jungle, Once again not too hyped for the trailers but highly underrated IMO.

[Champion of Europa]

Into The Blue. I previewd it with two friends, and I went in with expectations for it to suck hard. But not only was Jessica Alba in a bikini for an hour, Paul Walker and Scott Caan kicked ass.

[Chavo Classic]

Event Horizon (I think thats the name)

Has Samuel L Jackson and Sam Neil in it and when I read the bio on T.V. the other night (sky TV) it looked like your regular crappy space horror (and it was to a degree) but I was actualy pretty imressed in the end as I found myself wanting to watch it right the way through, very surprising.

The Rock is another, The trailers I saw looked ass and then it was actualy pretty good.

And Welcome too the Jungle, Once again not too hyped for the trailers but highly underrated IMO.

All very good films, although with Cage and Connery I always knew the Rock was going to be awesome.

[Chavo Classic]

...and by the way it's not Samuel L. Jackson in Event Horizon- it's Lawrence Fishface.

Unless that was one of those Jackson/Fishbourne look-alike jokes that Ricky Gervais does. :lol:

[John la Rock]

Napoleon Dynamite looked terrible going in but i ended up loving it

[RP]

Team America

[domononizuka]

SANTAS SLAY!

[KillerWolf]

The one saving grace of Stealth was Jessica Biel in a bikini.
that is why they continue to make CRAP, because people will still thinks it's watchable if it has some broad showing some skin.

i can log onto the internet and see a chick get fucked in the a-huuuaaallll - or i can fuck my wife. the point is, a woman in a bikini is not going to entice me to sit through two hours of garbage.

i can understand your logic if you are a 13 year old who has never seen a naked woman, and does not have access to a more straight forward form of pornography.

[KillerWolf]

the first Spiderman movie

The Matrix

In Hell ( a Van Dam flick )

[Skippord]

The one saving grace of Stealth was Jessica Biel in a bikini.

*buys Stealth and KY jelly*

[Blitz]

that is why they continue to make CRAP, because people will still thinks it's watchable if it has some broad showing some skin.

i can log onto the internet and see a chick get fucked in the a-huuuaaallll - or i can fuck my wife. the point is, a woman in a bikini is not going to entice me to sit through two hours of garbage.

i can understand your logic if you are a 13 year old who has never seen a naked woman, and does not have access to a more straight forward form of pornography.

Simma down now, buddy. I never said it was watchable. Stealth may be the worst movie of last year. There's nothing wrong with enjoying the sight of a pretty girl in a bikini.

[BCWWF]

We watched The Island on a flight home from Europe, and I thought it was pretty bad. In terms of entertainment value, it had some of that. But there were too many holes in the premise and some of the action scenes were dragged out way too long.

[Impeccable]

Ahem...cough...Chronicles Of Narnia...ahem

[Bad Company]

Forrest Gump

[samichna]

Dunno, expected to hate Team America for whatever reason. Pretty funny though I guess.

[Requiem]

Chronicles of Narnia.

[AlphaBean]

I have to say... yeah Stealth was a really good movie. They sold it horribly. But putting Oscar Winner Jamie Fox in a shallow supporting role and killing him off quickly and without consequence, that's just awesome. And I won't get into the final third of that film... but if you can suspend your disbelief and remember that action movies aren't meant to be deep, nor are they supposed to be horrible like Michael Bay horseshit... then you should be able to enjoy Stealth.

[packt up]

I Robot suprised me. Didn't exactly love it but it didn't suck as bad as I thought it would.

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

Longest Yard wasn't too terrible. Actually pretty enjoyable, especially the final game.

[Boondock Saint]

Collateral

Mixed reactions and people saying the ending was premature and didn't make sense. Obviously they were in the wrong screening room.

Oh man I love Collateral. Everytime it's on HBO I can't pull myself away from it. So many great lines.

I thought Doom was gonna suck...and it did. But I was entertained nonetheless.